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At least I think they are called the Scott Mountains. There are a lot of different mountain ranges all jumbled together here in no particular form or order. I believe this is what John McPhee referred to as “suspect terrane”, the result of tectonic plates ferrying bits and pieces of continents over and slamming them Read More …
Up well before dawn to get a few miles in before it got miserably hot. But it was miserably hot even before the sun rose. I was camped in a deep dark gorge next to a stream and even so I spent the night on top of my quilt rather than under it. The Read More …
Hiking the PCT has turned into something of a life project for me. My brother and I started north from Walker Pass in 1976, headed for Lake Tahoe, 500 miles to the north . A torn cartilage in my right knee forced a bailout after a hundred miles. I didn’t resume the trail until 2013, Read More …